X-Nico

unusual facts about shear zone



Berw Fault

It has a long history of movement with early ductile fabrics preserved from a sinistral (left lateral) strike-slip sense shear zone active at the end of the Precambrian and into the early Cambrian.


see also

Alice Springs Orogeny

The south-directed Redbank Shear Zone accommodated much of the exhumation and lead to the unearthing of the Moho.

Aswa

Aswa Dislocation, a 300 km shear zone in Uganda, forming the channel of the above river

Cochabamba Fault Zone

The Cochabamba Fault Zone or Cochabamba Shear Zone is an east-southeast trending zone of sinistral strike-slip faults near the city of Cochabamba in the Bolivian Andes.